This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here.
By Charlie Clauss
I am thankful...
Spiritual director Marcia Hotchkiss urges the Church to "share a little more hope, a little more Jesus," in these times of great suffering and uncertainty.
There is an evangelical basis for Christian education, as a lively pursuit of God himself: faith (and hope and love) seeking understanding, with an emphasis on the means of grace as God’s instruments of formation. In other words, we are called to continual conversion.
Black freedom will come through an open-eyed engagement with the powers of this world with the sure confidence that God is with us because our cause is just.